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In America on Christmas Eve, there is a merry tinkle of sleigh bells as Santa Claus drives up in a sleigh drawn by eight reindeer.
He drives frpm roof to roof, pausing just long enough to climb down each chimney. From a huge pack on his back he fills the children’s stockings with toys and goodies. Gifts that are too large to be stuffed in the stockings are put on the Christmas tree or stacked underneath it. This is Christmas in America—but it is not always Santa who brings the gifts to children in other lands.
The Dutch children anxiously await the arrival on Christmas of St. Nicholas. He was the bishop Of Myra, so he is dressed in the traditional bishop's robes of black, wears a mitre, and carries a crozier.
He rjdes a white horse and is accompanied by Black Peter, his page boy. Instead of hanging up their stockings to hold the gifts, the Dutch children place their wooden shoes in the chimney corner before going to bed. On the window sills they leave a bunch of hay for “Sleipner,” the bishop’3 white horse. It is customary for St. Nicholas to overturn chairs and leave the room in general confusion for Christmas morning.
English children wait for a Santa Claus who closely resembles our own. They also find gifts tied to a green Christmas tree, but this custom has been in effect only since Queen Victoria was a young bride. She married Albert, a German prince, anc^ it was he who introduced this Christmas custom to England from Germany.
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